i am stephen berry, your host for all things morbid. today, not any grimmer than any other day in this class, we are talking about the history of death investigation, the evolution of the system of death investigation in the united states, which really matures and comes to age in the dawn of the 19th, 20th century. how this becomes forensic science and ultimately becomes the "csi" series. now we all the pretty lurid sense of death investigations provided by local news. this graphic is everywhere, i found a million of these. always the same with the police tape and the chalk outlines. we have a very lurid sense of death investigation, if it bleeds, it leads school of journalism in the united states. i want to take the evolution of this system very seriously and talk about how it developed over time. starting with the historical importance. and the most obvious area in which death investigation is critically important is to the criminal justice system, and this is the most familiar aspect of death investigation. coroners and medical exami

i am stephen berry, your host for all things morbid. today, not any grimmer than any other day in this class, we are talking about the history of death investigation, the evolution of the system of death investigation in the united states, which really matures and come a

. >>> on lectures in history, stephen berry teaches a class about coroners in the 19th century south. he discusses them as an agent of the state and talks about records created from their inquest. his class is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> well, good afternoon everybody. i am glad to see we are all alive and well. you have all survived now seven weeks of american history, death